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CharlesBabbage

Posted on Jun 14, 2005 @ 19:43 by CatherineJohnson

On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

--Charles Babbage 1792-1871, Reformer militant, mathematician, computer pioneer, economist, mechanical engineer, code-breaker, inventor, society figure, etc.


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